Prof. Dr. Michael Gotthardt

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsCell Biology,General Genetics, Functional Genome Research
KeywordsAnimal Models, Myopathy, Signal Transduction, Stretch, Titin
Honours and awards

2023: ERC advanced grant

2012: ERC starting grant

2001: Sofja Kovalevskaya Award

1999: DFG Postdoc Fellowship

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionMax-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC)
InstituteForschungsgruppe Neuromuskuläre und kardiovaskuläre Zellbiologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Thomas WillnowMax-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2002

Programme(s)

2001Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Dr. Michael Gotthardt was trained as a physician in Heidelberg, Berlin and Boston. In 1997, he completed his doctoral thesis at the Humboldt University in Berlin, working on the development of adenoviral vectors for somatic gene therapy. He continued his studies at the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas where he generated several mouse models of cardiovascular diseases, including a line of mice carrying a genetic defect of the muscle protein titin, an important animal model of cardiomyopathy. Focus of his future work will be the elucidation of the role of titin in muscle and non-muscle tissues leading to novel strategies for treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Publications (partial selection)

2007Gotthardt M; Peng J; Raddatz K; Molkentin JD; Wu ;Y; Labeit S; Granzier H; Cardiac hypertrophy and reduced contractility in hearts deficient in the titin kinase region. In: Circulation, 2007, 743-751
2007Granzier HL; Radke MH; Royal J; Wu Y; Irving TC; Gotthardt M; Labeit S: Functional genomics of chicken, mouse, and human titin supports splice diversity as an important mechanism for regulating biomechanics of striated muscle . In: American Journal of Physiology, 2007, R557-R567
2007Jansen P; Giehl K; Nyengaard JR; Teng K; Lioubinski O; Sjoegaard SS; Breiderhoff T; Gotthardt M; Lin F; Eilers A; Petersen CM; Lewin GR; Hempstead BL; Willnow TE; Nykjaer A: Roles for the pro-neurotrophin receptor sortilin in neuronal development, aging and brain injury . In: Nature Neuroscience , 2007, 1449-1457
2007Gotthardt M; Radke MH; Peng J; Wu Y; McNabb M; Nelson OL; Granzier H: Targeted deletion of titin N2B region leads to diastolic dysfunction and cardiac atrophy . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007, 3444-3449
2006Gotthardt M; Raddatz K: Cardiac signaling: cellular, molecular and clinical aspects . In: Encyclopedic Reference of Genomics and Proteomics in Molecular Medicine , 2006, 208-214
2006Weinert S; Bergmann N; Luo X; Erdmann B; Gotthardt M: M line-deficient titin causes cardiac lethality through impaired maturation of the sarcomere . In: Journal of Cell Biology , 2006, 559-570
2005Peng J; Raddatz K; Labeit S; Granzier H; Gotthardt M: Muscle atrophy in titin M-line deficient mice . In: Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility , 2005, 381-388
2005Andersen OM; Reiche J; Schmidt V; Gotthardt M; Spoelgen R; Behlke J; von Arnim CAF; Breiderhoff T; Jansen P; Wu X; Bales KR; Cappai R; Masters CL; Gliemann J; Mufson EJ; Hyman BT; Paul SM; Nykjaer A; Willnow TE: Neuronal sorting protein-related receptor sorLA/LR11 regulates processing of the amyloid precursor protein . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2005, 13461-13466
1994M.Gotthardt, M.Strauss: Possibilities and Limitations of Gene Therapy. In: Monatsschr Kinderheilkd, 1994, 930-940